https://twitter.com/TheSpindleshay/status/352168957995790339
https://twitter.com/MarthaPlimpton/status/352169373445791744
Let her be clear: A Is For… co-founder Martha Plimpton doesn’t want to hear about the Kermit Gosnell case, and if you bring it up in the context of today’s arguments for and against new abortion restrictions in Texas, you will be blocked immediately. See?
https://twitter.com/MarthaPlimpton/status/352161119495925760
Not surprisingly, Plimpton’s partner in A Is For…, comedian Lizz Winstead, doesn’t want to talk about Gosnell either. She’s bored by attempts to politicize the Gosnell murder case, which has nothing to do with safe, legal abortion by health providers who care. Sally Kohn, too, is frustrated by people using the horrific trial to turn people against late-term abortion.
That doesn’t have to stop the rest of Twitter from talking about Gosnell, though. Often lost alongside Texas’ proposed ban on most abortions past 20 weeks are new safety regulations directly inspired by the Gosnell case. The legislation would require physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, require abortions to be performed in ambulatory surgical centers and require doctors themselves to administer abortion-inducing drugs.
As loudly as pro-abortion activists denounced Gosnell as a murderer and psychopath once he was convicted, in the early days of his practice he was a hero to many feminists by offering abortions without apology. In 1972, Gosnell told the Philadelphia Inquirer, “I am very concerned about the sanctity of life. But it is for this precise reason that I provide abortions for women who want and need them.” Through his trial he contended that he himself was a legit, caring health care provider.
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Still, abortion advocates argue that forcing Texas clinics to correct the fatal shortcomings that characterized Gosnell’s clinic would only create more Gosnells, by forcing Gosnell-like clinics to upgrade their level of medical care or close down.
#Abortion clinic standards b/c people who ran medical practice included no doctors other than #Gosnell himself, ¬ a single nurse #txlege
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) July 2, 2013
#Gosnell did not like it when women screamed or moaned in his clinic, so the staff was under instruction to sedate them into stupor. #txlege
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) July 2, 2013
https://twitter.com/potroast/status/352182884699869184
After #Gosnell, the PA Dept of Health said, "They should be explicitly regulated as ambulatory surgical facilities." #txlege #hb5
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) July 2, 2013
How many MSM outlets have sung @wendydavistexas's praises while avoiding the actual reason why #SB5 was written? #stand4life
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 2, 2013
The MSM doesn't want to talk about this, but there IS a #Gosnell still operating in Texas. That's right: http://t.co/MAjIuN57n1 #stand4life
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 2, 2013
Like it or not, the Kermit Gosnell case looms large over the proceedings in Austin, Texas, and blocking followers on Twitter won’t change that.
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